Re: Anyone know about IOMEGA Zip Drive or similar products?

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From: John Simmons
Date: Sat, 13 Apr 1996 00:00

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In article <334de2c2.6529038@news.vector.net>, iam@home (NT user) wrote:
>On Sat, 06 Apr 1996 21:13:43 GMT, king@netc.com (Andreas Zollmann)
>wrote:
>
>>Hello everyone,
>>
>>Has anyone of you had any positive or negative experiences with the
>>IOMEGA Zip Drive? It is a portable Drive that uses floppy-disk sized
>>media with 100MB capacity. The great advantage of this product is that
>>you can have large storage to cheap costs (one 100MB cartridge is
>>$ 15,00). I would like to know if that product is worth buying it and
>>if it is really almost as fast as a harddrive.
>>
>Well...  If your using DOS or Windows 3.1 or so the parallel version
>works pretty well.
>My parallel Zip-drive transfers at about 9 Megs a minute.
>The parallel Zip-drive will NOT work with Windows NT.

Actually, I've seen posts in the NT newsgroups claiming that Iomega has 
released their NT parallel drivers for NT and it's available on their web page 
(or on their BBS).

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Subject: Re: Anyone know about IOMEGA Zip Drive or similar products?
Date: 1996/04/13
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